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The Safe disposal of hazardous wastes : the special needs and problems of developing countries

Wilson, David (contributor); Smith, James E. (contributor); … - 1989

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World Bank - 2012

Health care waste management (HCWM) is a process to help ensure proper hospital hygiene and safety of health care workers and communities. It includes planning and procurement, construction, staff training and behavior, proper use of tools, machines and pharmaceuticals, proper disposal methods...

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India : Municipal Financing Requirements - Water, Sewerage, and Solid Waste

World Bank - 2013

This report presents the main results from cost models that were developed as an input to the High Powered Expert Committee on Urban Development in order to estimate the investment, operations, and maintenance requirements for urban water, sanitation and municipal solid waste in India. The cost...

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Solid Waste Management Holistic Decision Modeling

World Bank - 2013

This study provides support to the Bank's ability to conduct client dialogue on solid waste management technology selection, and will contribute to client decision-making. The goal of the study was to fully explore the use of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Research...

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Upstream Reduction of Solid Waste Generation : Implications on Dioxin and Furan Emission

World Bank - 2013

Environmental Resources Management-PR, Inc presents this report entitled 'upstream reduction of solid waste generation and its implications on dioxin and furan emissions' as part of the project phase two study upstream reduction of solid waste generation and its implications on dioxin and furan...

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Global logistics indicators, supply chain metrics, and bilateral trade patterns

Hausman, Warren H. - 2005

various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment in some cases. This paper focuses on logistics friction and draws … on a data set recently compiled by the World Bank with specific quantitative metrics of logistics performance in terms of … time, cost, and variability in time. It finds that the new variables that relate directly to logistics performance have a …

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Transport and Logistics : Myanmar Infrastructure Monitoring

World Bank - 2022

Transport and logistics services in Myanmar have been substantially hit by the impacts of the February 2021 coup and … the surge in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. Logistics companies have been affected by rising fuel prices … inland transport services. Transportation and logistics services are expected to be severely impacted by continuing high fuel …

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Solid Waste Management in Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania : A Cross-Country Analysis of Sector Challenges Towards EU Harmonization

World Bank - 2012

The European Union (EU) sets the policy framework for municipal solid waste management that drives reform initiatives in new EU member states and candidate countries. The EU policies, implementation targets, and grant funding establish the enabling environment that transforms the solid waste...

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Transitioning to a Circular Economy : An Evaluation of the World Bank Group's Support for Municipal Solid Waste Management (2010-20)

World Bank - 2022

The impact of municipal solid waste has surpassed local and regional boundaries and has become a global challenge, with mounting public health, environmental, social, and economic costs. In this context, there is an imperative need to move on from the traditional linear economic model...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Plastic Waste Management in South Asia : Challenges and Policy Recommendations

World Bank - 2021

This report is part of a larger series of stocktaking and analytical products on plastic pollution in South Asia. It supports the Bank's commitment to work with countries of South Asia to pursue and scale-up policies and programs that help them move toward a circular plastic economy and, in...

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